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Tip o’the Day™ 4: Take Advantage of unions
For those that write in C/C++, you might already know that unions are a good way to store data efficiently. Using the power of unions, you can leverage their functionality by accessing data more easily. Here’s a Tip o’the Day to show you how.
Continue reading...The Wired Issue
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Wired’s new iPad app was released on May 26, 2010 and instantly became Apple’s iPad App of the Week. It has been touted as the future of magazines and a bold step forward for digital and interactive content. However, all isn't rosy in the land of digital publishing (yet?)...
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- Tyler: Thanks for sharing this, it was really helpful when doing my implementation....
- Jessy: If memory reduction is actually a driving force, then using uncompressed textures isn't the right solution. PVRTC doesn't offer a particularly simple...
- Blade: I just ported this over to UDK, got the basics of it working great. Now off to learn the Material system so I can actually build the textures for the ...
- BuffaloJ: Great tip! I've done C++ for 15 years and have used unions only a tiny amount. I can think of 5 places in my engine code that this would be very ele...
- Bob Koon: Thanks for your comment. I was saving discussion of the POW2 problem for the next article. You're right though. The biggest waste that I've seen on...
- Adam: Nice article. It raises some very useful points. It doesn't, however, address the shortcoming of Apple not including the non-POT (Power Of Two) textur...
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